What can you do to make your wiki attractive and readable for
the widest group of readers? Develop platform-independent design
guidelines. This may require breaking with some old habits, but
you’ll get a larger audience in return.

This blog will give you the essentials of progressive
design. See here for the in-depth version.

Navboxes are groups of lists of short links packed into a layout
table. They are not mobile friendly.

If an article is part of a group of articles, consider whether
that navbox group should be a category instead.

If an article is part of a group, but has an ordered
relationship with others—like previous/next—it's best to put the
navigation in an infobox.

Tabbers can be an effective way of displaying information. But
it’s i…

Ensuring that your content and our product is compatible with
any kind of device has become an important part of development here
at Fandom powered by Wikia. Everything we build has device
compatibility in mind. One of the most important tools we've
developed is the portable infobox -- part of a larger effort to
ensure that all of your wiki's infobox content displays well on
anything from a phone to a refrigerator.

We often get asked how much portable infoboxes can be
customised. Lots of communities want extra functionality in their
infoboxes, but many of those don't exist in the default infobox
style. Even those of you who are more comfortable in the stylistic
manipulation of portable infoboxes might have more questions about
things like c…

One of the opportunities that comes with switching to portable
infoboxes is that you can reconsider the way your whole
community looks. That may sound daunting, but it can be highly
rewarding. As the most dominant element on most pages, infoboxes
are usually where the readers' eyes are drawn — and so they are
naturally part of the stylistic core of any community.

It's easy to forget that the central "S" in "CSS" stands for
style. We just go around, picking colors out of a
hat, choosing styles at random. But, particularly when it comes to
infoboxes, your life will be exceptionally easier if you take your
time and consider your infoboxes a holistic system of
design elements. After all, knowing which brushes to buy and which
paint to use makes you…